The other day I read an article about a Hong Kong singer and actor named Edison Chen.  The article was about how he announced his break from the entertainment industry after the sex scandal incident.

Chen took his laptop into a repair shop and while it was there, the squad of geeks took some 1,300 photos off the hard drive.  These photos were of Chen and about 6 different female celebrities.

“These photos were very private and have not been shown to people and were never intended to be shown to anyone,” the 27-year-old said in a calm voice amid a flood of camera flashes from the hundreds of reporters gathered.

“I have failed as a role model. However I wish that this matter will teach everyone a lesson.”

He said in a brief statement he would fulfill existing commitments before stepping down “indefinitely.” He added that he would dedicate himself to charity and community work.

The only reason why I even bothered mentioning this is because this is what our pop-whores, I mean stars, should do when they jack up their image.  I mean, take Spears, either one, if the girls would just quit doing what they are doing they wouldn’t hit the tabloids so hard.  Although it is big sis Brit who made little Jamie Lynne such a starlet in the gossip columns.  Is anyone else tired of seeing their RSS feeds filled with the Spears’ life?  I don’t even subscribe to celebrity gossip RSS’ but CNN covers a lot of the Spears happenings.

Update 3/17/08: Here is another hit on CNN for the Juicy Campus news. For those of you who haven’t been featured on the college gossip website, then read what this girl has to say. She told the reporter that, “when she read the posts, she felt like she had been kicked in the stomach”

I read an article on CNN this morning about a college website for students. Unlike Black Board, the site used for scholar purposes, JuicyCampus.com was used to continue the ‘playground drama’ most experience in high school.

The website was basically an anonymous forum where people would post juicy gossip about one another for the world to see. Some, heck even most threads were viewed several hundred to thousands of times.

JuicyCampus’ endless threads of anonymous innuendo have been a popular Web destination on the seven college campuses where the site launched last fall, including Duke, UCLA and Loyola Marymount. It recently expanded to 50 more, and many of the postings show they’ve been viewed hundreds and even thousands of times.

Most of the time students will be all for freedom of speech, but it can be a little disturbing to see your life behind closed doors posted on the Internet.

The Cornell University junior was in his dorm between classes when the text message came in from a friend. Check out JuicyCampus.com, it said.

The student found his name on the Web site beside a rambling, filthy passage about his sexual exploits, posted by an anonymous student on campus. The young man could only hope the commentary was so ridiculous nobody would believe it.

“I thought, `Is this going to affect my job employment? Is this going to make people on campus look at me? Are people going to talk about me behind my back?” said the student, who asked not to be identified. He also wondered about his 11-year-old sister, who is spending more time on the Internet. “What if she Googles me? What will she think about her big brother?” he said.

Matt Ivester, The founder of the juicy gossip site, had said “College students are clever and fun-loving, and we wanted to create a place where they could share their stories.” Well, that sounds all fine and dandy, but with anything on the Internet it should be monitored by admins.

Click here to read more on this, it is rather interesting.

Tre Merritt, a 5 year old from Arkansas shot and killed a black bear weighing more than 400 pounds. In the video on CNN, he describes his actions and feelings towards killing the bear that was 12 times the size of him.Tre’s father began teaching him to shoot at the age of 2 and a half. His grandfather had taken him hunting that day and up until then he has only killed deer. This is a remarkable feat for this child to accomplish at such a young age.

The father expresses his ideas on what to do with the large black bear pelt, he mentions getting a life size mount but, still unsure about where to put it though.